King Lear (1988)
King Lear is a 1988 comedy movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith and Julie Delpy.
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Cast
- Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
- Burgess Meredith as Don Learo
- Julie Delpy as Virginia
- Leos Carax as Edgar
- Molly Ringwald as Cordelia
- Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy
- Woody Allen as Mr. Alien (uncredited)
- Freddy Buache as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
- Menahem Golan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- Suzanne Lanza as (uncredited)
- Kate Mailer as Self (uncredited)
- Norman Mailer as Self (uncredited)